Pace on Earth

Umbrella

I had to coach in the rain this evening so I purchased a dollar store umbrella to keep my at least partially dry. It will be interesting to see just how long a dollar store umbrella lasts but I was willing to bet 2$ that it would last as long as 1 practice. As it turns out practice was cancelled so it will last at least another day. It did get me thinking, however, about who invented the umbrella. It was, of course, Normy's Egyptian forefathers. Although they also appear in ancient Greece and China as well. In modern times it was, not surprisingly, the British that waterproofed it and modernized it. The more you know. I'm almost positive mine isn't made of whalebone.

Pace out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 10:21 p.m.